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J. PKETZUCH.

PROTECTING PLATE FOR SHOES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. n. 1918.

1,319,793. Patented Oct. 28,1919.

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JOSEPH PIE'IZUCI-I, 0F CINCINNATI, OHIO.

PROTECTING-PLATE FOR SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 28 1919.

Application filed February 11, 1918. Serial No. 216,646.

. To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH Pm'rzUoH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Protecting Platesfor Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a plate for the toe or heel ofa shoe which shall be cheap of manufacture, simple in construction andhighly efficient in use.

The heel plate is to be applied to the heel or toe of the shoe toprevent wear and preserve to the fullest wearing capacity, certain partsof the heel which first run over or Wear out and it may also be formedfor the purpose of preventing slippage to a certain degree.

It can be stamped in blank form out of pliable metal and be ready foruse without any further work thereon, and it can be placed on the shoeby the user himself, as he need not be skilled to place the same inproper position or it can quickly be placed on the shoe by the retailereither by hand or by a small machine. It may be made out of metal havinga minimum degree of softness, or from metal with less pliability, but itshould be made of metal which can be bent into shape without greateffort.

The plate is triangular in contour, or approximately so, and consists ofa body portion having a tang thereon, situated at the forward partthereof, and at its other or opposite end the body portion runs to apoint which acts in use the same as a tang.

v It will be seen by this construction that I am enabled to bend or turnover these points or tangs and drive them into the edge of the sole orheel and also into the body portion or surface of the sole or heel. Thisenables me to drive the tang into the lift or bottom layer of leather onthe heel and also into the leather edge on the sole, thus preventing anytendency to crack leather or to go between any of the layers thereof;thus this protecting plate will be firmly held in a normal and uniformposition and not interfere in any manner with the original constructionof the shoe.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification:

Figure 1, is an isometric View of a shoe showing the sole and heelfitted with my plates,

Fig. 2, is a view in elevation of the plate,

Fig. 3, is a similar View without the tang cut out of the body part,

Fig. 4, is a section taken on the line H of Fig. 3 except that theholding points or ends are ent over as they appear when fastened in theshoe heel, and

Fig. 5, is a section on line 55 of Fig. 1, the heel and upper of theshoe broken away.

The plate is formed of a body part 1, having a point 2 and an integralsecuring tang 3. I may also employ a tang as '1': struck out of the bodyportion 1, see Figs. 2 and 5. The point 2 is sharp and the points orcorners 5 are usually rounded or cut away so that when placed on theshoe sole or heel, the plate will snugly fit and lie flush with the edgeof the sole or heel.

The sole of the shoe is marked 6, the heel 7 the upper 8 and the lift ofthe heel 9.

The dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 3 show the point at which the tangs andpoints are bent over so that the plate can be placed in position.

In Fig. 2 and also Fig. 5 I show the plate formed with the cutout tang aand in this case point 2 need not be bent over; in Fig. 5 I show thisparticular plate ap plied to the lift of a shoe heel. In Fig. 3 I showthe plate as it is used when the point 2 is bent over and in Fig. 4 Ishow this particular plate with the point 2 bent down to go into theface of the heel or sole and the tang 3 bent over to a form in which itis pressed or hammered into the lift or sole edge of the shoe.

It will be noted that this plate is widest at the point where it lies atthe edge of the sole or heel,

When the user desires to put these plates upon his shoes he turns thepoints or tangs into the position desired and then presses or hammersthem in place.

These protecting plates, it will be observed, are placed in position insuch a manner that they afford the best protection desired at the pointswhere they are placed and that they do not mar the outward appearance ofthe shoein any manner.

These plates are usually made of very thin material which can readily bebent into the proper form, but are shown thicker in the drawings so asto best illustrate the invention.

l/Vhile I have described one specific method of carrying my inventioninto effect it will be understood that the same is capable of somemodification without departing from the spirit of the invention and Iwish to be understood as claiming that such modifications will stillfall within the scope of my invention.

What I claim as new and my invention and desire to secure by LettersPatent is:

A protecting plate for shoes, stamped out of thin metal of a triangularshape to form a body portion, at one end tapered down to form a sharptang point, and at this sharp end also provided with a tang cut out ofthe metal, and at its opposite end being materially widened and at themiddle of said widened part provided with a pointed bendable tang.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

JOSEPH PIETZUCH.

/Vitnesses:

H. E. CARs'rENs, N. C. Scorn copies of this patent may be obtained forfive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

